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From interviews with authors to book reviews and professional advice, the web is a great place to go if you need to keep abreast of literary culture.

 

Amazon UK top 100 books
Spot trends and analyse your competition.

Amazon US top 100 books

If you want your book to work internationally, keep an eye on this.

Booksellers’ sites:
Waterstones www.waterstones.co.uk
Borders www.borders.co.uk
Barnes and Noble (USA) www.barnesandnoble.com
ABE books www.abebooks.co.uk

book2book
Key book news stories digested and served up by email for free every morning.

The Bookseller
The central source of industry information on publishing and bookselling in the UK. If you are serious about your craft, subscribe to the online or weekly print version.

Publishers Weekly
The international news website of book publishing and bookselling, featuring reviews, bestseller lists, commentary and more.

Broadcast Magazine
Television and radio industry news, blogs, data and analysis.

Media Week
Weekly magazine for media industry news with stories, features, analyses, and career information.

Press Gazette
The only magazine dedicated to journalism and the press news from the world of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio.

Guardian Books
News and reviews, critics, authors, first chapters, Top 10s, bestsellers, talk board and games.

Guardian Media
All the stories from the Media section of the Guardian in one handy place.

 

Professional Advice

What writers mustn’t do is think "what would children like to read about?"…any writer has to write about what interests him.

Michael Morpurgo


Hot Topics

 

Improve your writing

MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, is offering a range of one day courses for people who’d like to improve their writing skills for business.

 

Writing in recession: Sophie Parkin

Sophie Parkin tells Phil Williams how the recession of the early 90s prompted her to switch career – and how she started earning a living from writing.

 

Claim your cash

Have you filed a claim with the ALCS? If you've ever had anything published, they may be holding money for you. Click here to find out more.  

 

Robert Goddard

"It is important not to be disheartened."

 

Writing for teens

Meg Rosoff talked about writing for teens at the 2009 London Book Fair. Profwriting student Fiona Egglestone reports back.

Learn to write by the sea

 

Report and Proposal Writing

This hands-on one-day course is designed for busy professionals to help you write better marketing copy. Run by MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, the course has been  created with solo practitioners, small and medium business, and business support organisations in mind.

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